Gratitude

This week I had a moment to be reminded of something we all take for granted and that is "gratitude" - when we are all down and out and think life is at the worse; we continue to seek the negative; not knowing there are things out there that we should be and need to be grateful for. My recent stay in the hospital really opened my eyes and during a session with a group of people my eyes were awakened and we made a list and I am going to type mine here of what I am grateful for.

"For all this and more, I am grateful for...."

- even though are relationship is currently strained, I am grateful for my son, Chase, he's an almost 14 year old teenager and is going through his own mental development. What he says I can't take personally, but I am grateful for having a healthy child, even with anger, because unfortunately there are people, womena and men, who can not even have a child.

- thought I have mental and physical challenges, I am grateful that I am becoming stronger with each wall I break down, because some people never can find that strength within.

- so grateful for the amazing experiences I have encounter over my life, the positive ones, the traveling, places I lived, people I have met, and some mini dreams I made come true.

- though I have been a victim of abduction and sexual abuse in my youth, I am still full of love and one day will be detached from those traumas to experience the real emotion of love fully.

- grateful for the courage to plead for help and come into the hospital at a moment where I dont know what I was or wasn't going to do.

- grateful for the talent as a writer, whether I ever get published or not, I know that I have a great talent and my outlet for expression; and others have seen it as well, make me feel good.

- though my mother and i have had a rollercoaster of a relationship over the decades, that now, today, we are closer than ever and she is the only supporter I have emotionally, and grateful that God has kept her in my life, even though her own poor health has taken her down.

- grateful for the sunshine and the rain

- grateful for a smile from a stranger

- grateful for the invention of the internet as it's been a great tool for me

- grateful to know i AM a good person and even when i am full of negative, i now see a glimmer of positive

- grateful i breathe, and woke up this morning as some don't wake up

- grateful for those friends in my life, knowing they are far from here, still keep in contact with me online and for those who I have hurt and no longer keep in contact, one day hope they will forgive me.

- grateful for being able to share this with you

Now what are you grateful for? Gratitude is taken for granted, and when we are in dispair we need to look for ONE good thing no matter how bad our life gets, and smile and think, it could be worse.

d.